ABSTRACT
Summarizing their research, Johns and Potter see the spoons as part of the ritual plate of a sanctuary for the worship of Faunus. They regard the jewellery as a jeweller-merchant's stock and offer three possible solutions: that it comprised regalia specially commissioned for the cult; that the jeweller-merchant, a devotee of Faunus, incorporated some of his religious beliefs into his creations and kept his wealth in a (presumed) sanctuary or temple; or that, ignoring all iconographical references, the jewellery was but the stock of a jeweller-merchant located in a wealthy part of Roman Britain, a stock stolen and hidden with silver looted from the sanctuary.
